Benefits of Practicing Sports for Children with Cerebral Palsy. A Literature Review

Authors

  • Alexandru-Mădălin DINA Faculty of Physiotherapy, National University of Physical Education and Sports (UNEFS), Bucharest, Romania. Email: dina_alex76@yahoo.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(3).23

Keywords:

physical therapy, sports, cerebral palsy, self-confidence, disabled children.

Abstract

Physical therapy is one of the most important concerns in an infantile cerebral palsy diagnosis. Multiple studies debate in various directions about the necessity of rehabilitation and reintegration in society as functional persons. There are children who need to do physical therapy for all their life long, but there are also children who reach the main rehabilitation objectives. What should they all do more than physical therapy programs? Does the finished physical therapy sessions is enough for rehabilitated cerebral palsy symptoms? What we propose is physical activity which includes diversity from the point of view of stimulus, interests, social inclusion, and team involvement. All this means adapted sports practice along the physical therapy sessions. All the children involved are stimulated to change their routine and bring some competitiveness, creativity, fun, to participate with others in physical practice, as physical therapy is in general an activity done by him/herself. Bringing together sport and therapy, children’s development is improved from physical abilities, fine and motor skills, psychical abilities and cognitive point of view. Introducing sports between physical therapy sessions or after the rehabilitation program, we actually manage to increase the progression pace and to maintain the gains over the deficiencies. As physical health is related to mental well-being, every child who’s involved in sports is actually doing a type of treatment. This review explores the benefits of sports for a cerebral palsy diagnosed child. 

Beneficiile practicării sportului pentru copiii diagnosticați cu paralizie cerebrală. Sinteză a literaturii științifice. Kinetoterapia este una dintre cele mai importante preocupări în diagnosticul de paralizie cerebrală infantilă. Studii multiple dezbat în diverse direcții despre necesitatea reabilitării și reintegrării în societate a acestor copii ca persoane funcționale. Sunt copii care au nevoie să facă kinetoterapie toată viața, însă sunt și copii care reușesc să atingă principalele obiective de reabilitare. Ce ar trebui să facă mai mult decât includerea în programele de recuperare? Sunt suficiente programele terminate de kinetoterapie pentru simptomele de paralizie cerebrală reabilitată? Ceea ce propunem este o activitate fizică care include diversitatea din punct de vedere a stimulului, intereselor, incluziunii sociale și a implicării în echipă. Toate acestea înseamnă practica sportivă adaptată de-a lungul sesiunilor de kinetoterapie. Toți copiii implicați sunt stimulați să-și schimbe rutina și să aducă puțină competitivitate, creativitate, distracție, să participe alături de ceilalți la activitatea fizică, deoarece kinetoterapia este, în general, o activitate solitară. Adunând sportul și terapia, dezvoltarea copiilor este îmbunătățită din punct de vedere fizic, al motricității grosiere, al motricității fine, psihic și cognitiv. Introducând sportul între ședințele de kinetoterapie sau după programul de reabilitare, reușim efectiv să creștem ritmul de progres și să menținem ameliorarea deficiențelor. Deoarece sănătatea fizică este legată de bunăstarea mentală, fiecare copil care este implicat în sport efectuează de fapt un tip de tratament. Această recenzie explorează beneficiile sportului pentru un copil diagnosticat cu paralizie cerebrală.

Cuvinte-cheie: kinetoterapie, sport, paralizie cerebrală, încredere în sine, copii cu dizabilități. 

Received 2023 July 7; Revised 2023 August 28; Accepted 2023 September 1thAvailable online 2023 September 30; Available print 2023 November 30

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2023-09-30

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DINA , A.-M. . (2023). Benefits of Practicing Sports for Children with Cerebral Palsy. A Literature Review. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Educatio Artis Gymnasticae, 68(3), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(3).23

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